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Objectionable article.
"authorized officer" means any police officer or member of the Preventive
Service to whom a warrant is issued:
"film" includes a cinematograph film, photographic slides and trans-
parencies:
"juvenile” means a person under the age of 16 years;
"Warrant" means a warrant issued under section 6(1).
(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a person publishes ao article if he
(a) distributes, circulates or sells the article to the public or a section
of the public:
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(b) lends or gives the article,jo the public or a section of the public: (c) exposes or offers the article for sale or for leading to the public
or a section of the public; or
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(d) in the case of an article consisting off or containing matter to be looked at or a sound recording, shows, plays or projects the article to or for the public or al section of the public.
(3) For the purposes of this Ordinance, a person shall be deemed to have an article for publication if—
(a) with a view to publication; or
(b) with a view to the manufacture or reproduction therefromm of any
article for publication,
he has such article in his owaorship, possession or control
(4) For the purposes of this Ordinance, publication for gain includes a publication whether the gain is to accrue by way of consideration (for the publication or in any other way.
3, (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance an "objectionable article" is any article which-
(a) consists of or contains malter of an indecent, obscene or revolt.
ing nature; or
(b) is deemed to be objectionable under subsection (3).
(2) For the purposes of subsection (100), any advertisement relating to syphillis, gonorrhoea, nervous debility or other complaint or infirmity arising from or relating to sexual intercourse contained in any article (other than a bona fide medical newspaper, medical book or other medical publica- lion) shall be deemed to be matter of an indecent maiure.
(0) Any article which is intended, or by reason of the manner of its presentation or its form or otherwise is of a kind that is likely, to be read or looked at by juveniles, whether or not it is also intended or likely to be read or looked at by adults, and consists of or contains stories told in pictures, with or without the addition of written matter, being stories par- traying-
(a) the commission of crime to such a way as to-
(1) create sympathy for or extol the criminal;
(i) bring into contempt the forces and institutions entrusted with the enforcement of law and order;
(i) inspire or encourage persons to imitate criminals;
(b) acts of-
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(1) excessive violence or cruelly; or
(ii) torture or other physical agony:
(c) acts of a repulsive or horrible nature or which tend to deprave; (d) seduction, rape or sexual perversion; or
(e) the commission of crime, acts of violence or cruelty or of a repul- sive or borrible nature, or other matter, in such a way that che story as a whole would tend to corrupl a juvenile.
shall be deemed to be an objectionable article,
(4) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in subsection (3) shall apply
to any bona fide article in a newspaper which portrays an actual envent.
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() No person ball-
(a)
whether for gain or not, publish;
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have for publication for gain; or
(c) whether or not he knows it is such an article, import for the pur-
pose of publication for gain,
any objectionable article.
(2) Any person who contravenes, subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $100,000 and to imprisonment for 3 years.
Pron/bition of Welonable articles.
(3) A person shall not be convicted of an offence under this section 1999. 4. 56. and an order for forfeiture shall not be made under section 9 if it * 44 proved that publication of the article in question is justified as being for the public good on the ground that it is in the interests of science, litera- ture, art or learning, or of any other object of general or public concern,
(4) It is hereby declared that the opinion of experts as to the literary, 1999, 568,
6. 40) artistic, scientific or other merits of an article may be admitted in any proceeding under this Ordinance either to establish or to negative the said ground.
$. (D) If in proceedings against a person for an offence under see. Proscedinga. bon 4(1)(5), it is proved that such person had 2 or more identical objec Gionable articles in his ownership, possession or control he shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to have had such articles for the purpose of publication for gain.
(2) If in proceedings against a person for an offence under section 401Ke), it is proved that such person imported—–
(a) in the case of any plate prepared for the purpose of printing copies of any objectionable article or any photographic film pre- pared for that purpose, such plate or film;
161 in the case of any other article, 2 or more identical objection-
able articles.
be shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to have imported such articles for the purpose of publication for gain.
6 (1) A magistrate may, if he is satisfied by information on oath Search and that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that there is in or on any Leirut. premises or place, or any vessel, aircraft or vehicle--
(a) any objectionable article in respect of which an offence under
section 4 has been or is being or is about to be committed; or
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